The age of personalized entertainment is here, and perhaps no technologies epitomize it more than TiVo and iPod, devices that give individuals total control over what they watch and hear. But will the age of “egocasting” really improve the quality of American culture? Christine Rosen looks at these technologies of fetish, and wonders whether we are losing the capacity ever to be surprised and improved by our cultural creations.

(Click here to read this entire article from the Fall 2004/Winter 2005 issue of The New Atlantis.)